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When you type in a URL and the web page loads, everything seems so simple. Peel back the layers, however, and you see a complex delivery system built around data packets. Watch this informative video to see how your web requests actually work.

Courtesy of The World Science Festival, we find this well put together video demonstrating how a trans-Atlantic web page request works.

Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart). You can follow him on Twitter if you'd like.

when I first learned about routers I was like wow – so complicated, it sends packets all over the place – then I later learned that there’s typically one superhighway (undersea optical fibre cable) taken by as he says ‘most’ of the traffic, and most other routes are so much slower that you’d get ‘time out’ if they were taken.

So the practical reality of most routers routing tables would be – main route working? OK – continue …

This is way to overly simplified, this is what you would tell your 8 year old how the internet works, not a grown person. Get smarter world, or get humbler and realize you will never understand. Proof that its overly simplified, a hacker can manipulate networks, packets, and computers to do what they wish because they know exactly how it all works, so if your not a hacker, you don’t know what your doing. If you have no idea what I just said and meant, its because I overly simplified it, and those that understand what I said, already knew it. There in lies the proof that oversimplification does nothing but keep the dump….. dump.